Help with smcfancontrol?

[ShereeLaveau]

I recently purchased a 15" i7 mbp and downloaded smcfancontrol. I mainly used it to just monitor the cpu temp, but after playing several games, I decided to boost the rpm to 3300 for a few minutes to cool it down. For some unknown reason, I decided to uninstall it and later realized that I kind of missed it. However, now when I open it, instead of showing that the minimum rpm can be as low as the 2000s, the lowest it will go is the 3300 that I recently had it set as. I completely uninstalled it the first time so I don't understand why it would default on this number. Am I missing something?

 

[elpmas]

Can't you just set the default back at 2000RPM and save it? If not, just create another one that is 2000RPM

 

[ShereeLaveau]

No, that's the problem, the sliders won't go back down to 2000, the lowest that it shows them being able to go is 3300 and when I try to manually type the number in, it says to enter a valid number.

 

[MBHockey]

Try resetting the SMC.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964

 

[ShereeLaveau]

that was the trick thank you!